Republicans must counter attacks on FBI

Jan 11, 2018 | 6:42 PM

In a tweet on Wednesday, President Donald Trump accused Sen. Dianne Feinstein (center) of being ‘underhanded and a disgrace’ for disclosing details of a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

The most revealing assertion from the interview of Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is made by his attorney on page 279: "Somebody's already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work."

If true, Russia's security service considers the information leaked to former MI6 officer Christopher Steele by his late source anything but disinformation or fake news.

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As a Republican, I call on Rep. Charlie Dent and other patriotic Republicans in GOP strategist Steve Schmidt's "coalition of the decent" to push back hard and loud and repeatedly against damaging partisan attacks on the integrity of the FBI and other American intelligence agencies by those careeristpoliticians choosing a politically expedient alliance with a dangerously unfit presidential incumbent.

For the sake of the world, the nation, and even the long-term interests of their own party, they need to reverse their disgraceful efforts to thwart the principled investigation of an attack on American sovereignty and the possible complicity of the commander in chief of the most powerful and nuclear-armed military in the history of the world.